Legal tech company Clio has long said that its mission is to transform the legal experience for all. Until now, that “all” has largely focused on law firms and their clients, but recently Clio announced a major initiative to develop technology for the judiciary.As part of that initiative, it hired Pablo Arredondo, the former cofounder of Casetext and developer of…
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In a significant ruling for Texas criminal practice, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reportedly vacated the rape convictions of three men and held they are entitled to a new trial because prosecutors allowed false testimony from the accuser to be presented. As flagged in Law360’s appellate coverage, the decision was divided — a reminder that even where appellate…
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Apple Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00500 on September 19, 2026. For patent litigators and in-house IP teams, the case is worth watching not only because of the petitioner’s profile, but also because early PTAB filings often signal parallel district court strategy, licensing pressure points, or a broader…
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The American Legal Technology Awards has named the finalists for its seventh annual awards program, honoring outstanding achievement and innovation across multiple categories of legal technology. This year’s winners were selected from 234 submissions across 10 categories. Winners will be revealed at a gala awards dinner Oct. 25 at Suffolk University Law School in Boston. Finalists were selected by a panel of…
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What does a successful AI strategy look like for law firms? In this thought-provoking webinar, Karen Waldron of LexisNexis, Seb Butcher of Bird & Bird and Caroline Hill of Legal […]
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For AI start-ups, filing a patent may seem like crossing the finishing line. An invention has been found, the application is ready and the company can then get on with […]
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I was running through the syllabus highlights recently as we started a new semester of lawyering skills. It’s primarily a writing and research class, with professionalism and practice technology incorporated when possible. As we touched on artificial intelligence, there were no questions and I didn’t belabor it. If law students use it, they risk making the…
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The federal judiciary is continuing to formalize its approach to artificial intelligence while also widening public remote access to civil and bankruptcy proceedings beyond what existed before the pandemic. The latest report from the Judicial Conference signals that both issues are now firmly part of long-term court administration rather than temporary or experimental measures.

On the AI front, the significance…
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Apple Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00491 on September 18, 2026. As with many newly filed PTAB matters, the docket is worth watching from the outset because the petition marks the beginning of a potentially important validity fight that could affect parallel district court litigation, licensing leverage, and…
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A closely watched Senate effort to establish a broader federal regulatory framework for cryptocurrency has stalled after Democrats objected that the bill did not adequately address President Donald Trump’s crypto-related financial interests. Although this is a legislative fight rather than a court ruling, the setback is significant for lawyers and compliance professionals because it delays clarity on one of the…
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Senate Democrats have blocked a major cryptocurrency bill that would have established a broader federal regulatory framework for the industry, delaying what many market participants hoped would become the clearest congressional roadmap yet for digital-asset oversight. The failed push exposed familiar policy divides over market structure and agency authority, but this time the dispute also turned on ethics concerns tied…
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A federal judge in Alexandria, Virginia, has kept alive a closely watched challenge to the Trump administration’s proposed $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization fund,” signaling she is not persuaded the case should disappear simply because the government now says the plan has been abandoned.

U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema’s reaction is significant less for the fate of the fund itself than for…
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